Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943), Vigilante Force (1976)

Available on YouTube. 72 minutes. Part of the Henry Aldrich series of comedies starring Jimmy Lydon.

Jimmy Lydon walked with a limp in this movie from a birth defect that was corrected in infancy. He was 20-years-old, it was 1943 and this was presumably what kept him out of World War Two. 

Henry wears a suit and tie to high school, but his father was mad at him for not getting into a fist fight when a school bully pushes him around. I don't know if this was a common attitude at the time. Maybe it was meant to be a subtle pro-war message. Lydon was one of the few movie teenagers to be taller than his movie parents.

Henry Aldrich has taken an interest in chemistry and has been hanging around with a chemistry professor who's come up with a formula to give people three times normal human strength. Henry drinks more of it than you're supposed to, walks home in the rain but is disoriented and staggers into a haunted mansion which is a front for a criminal enterprise.

Not really funny. Henry believes that, in his drugged state, he murdered his principal which should have been pretty good.

Free on YouTube.

I made it a double feature and watched Vigilante Force (1976) with 53-year-old Jimmy Lydon in a supporting role. But his role was pretty minor, I didn't quite recognize him and the movie wasn't very good. It might have been worth watching if Jimmy had killed anyone. 

Jan-Michael Vincent gets his Vietnam vet brother Kris Kristofferson to form a vigilante force to fight the rowdy oil workers who are terrorizing the town. It turns out that vigilantism is bad as Kris Kristofferson becomes power hungry. He forces banker David Doyle to give him a large cash loan, then has him run over with a car. 

With Bernadette Peters and Victoria Principal.

Produced by Roger Corman's brother, Gene. Free on Tubi.